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#3 is subjective enough to be innacurate, handy skills throughout the 1900's depended on what you did and where you lived. High population density and earning power will always end in more specialization.
It's interesting to see a shift back to fixing/making skills in North America now that people just can't afford hiring it. My mom and her parents can't cook, sew, grow, mend or repair for shit, and here's my ass with preserves from my garden in the pressure cooker, replacing the copper pipes under her sink with PEX.
Hell, there's even a movement for home biolabs to synthesize drugs.
OK, I might just have skewed perspective, being born in 1996 in ex-USSR, and remembering that in my childhood you were expected to have some idea how to fix everything you use or at least how the person with necessary equipment and skills will do that.